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29 April 1881 — 3 Savile Row | |
Friday. 29th [April 1881]. I did not get up till lunch time. We expected Monty & Mr Arthur Otway to lunch– They did not come till after. Mr Otway came to talk to Henry abt his chances of going to Rome– He said Sir Augustus Paget had so frightened Ld Granville that he was enclined to give way. Sir Aug: refused distinctly to go to St Petersburg & said he wd rather resign—that in that case he wd have all his conservative friends to attack Lord Granville in Parliament & so Henrys chances were melting away & Lord Granville would not dare to move Sir A. I did not go out at all. Gave our tickets for the private view of the Academy to Blanche & Susan Hambro– A good many people came on from there to tea viz. Mr Kinglake & then Blanche & then Lady Burdett Coutts who was very nice & kind & very suitably dressed for an old bride. She begged us to fix a day to go & dine with her. We went to dine with Sir William Drake. Mr Morgan took me down to dinner & I sat between him & Sir Wm. Met Lady Inchiquin & her daughter Miss O’Brien—Mr & Mrs Ainslie, & a Miss G sister of Lady Brett—besides one or two men. Mr Morgan gave me an Opera box for tomorrow night. | |
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